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For some years, this “Greetings from Humberside” poster hung over the fireplace of a steak house in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Attractive, colourful, and no doubt at times a conversation piece, it was a long way from home. The whole of Humberside Collegiate Institute in Toronto sent greetings to their sailors posted in Halifax. Humberside Collegiate […] We start 2015 with three “vanished” schools. The bricks and mortar of Grand Avenue, Humber Bay, and Silverthorn schools have gone, but their war memorials survive to remind us of students who volunteered for king and country. Humber Bay’s memorial proudly displayed in its fourth location. ©2015 Toronto Branch OGS A fourth school, Fairbank Memorial, […] The year 2014 began with the promise of much remembering. One hundred years since the outbreak of the Great War; 70 years since D-day in the Second World War. Princess Anne would re-dedicate Canada’s national war memorial in Ottawa, 75 years after her grandfather, King George VI, first unveiled it in 1939.
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